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...Palestinians say the seven-day hiatus in violence that kicks off a six-week "cooling off" period began last Wednesday; the Israelis say it has yet to begin. A weekend that included Palestinian militants killed in an Israeli rocket attack and two car bombs detonated deep inside Israel appeared to render the discussion moot, and the more immediate countdown now may be the one that ends with the collapse of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, which will be followed by a race between Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Secretary of State Colin Powell to be the first...
TIME.com: Secretary of State Colin Powell managed to get the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to a timetable - a week of no violence, which will trigger a six-week "cooling-off" period, followed by "confidence-building" measures and more talks. That seems to be open to plenty of sabotage along...
Colorado Springs A six-week, nation-wide manhunt for seven gun-toting escapees from a Texas prison ended when the last two, stripped to the waist and hands in the air, surrendered to police in Colorado. Two days earlier four of the other fugitives, who had been living in a trailer park, attending bible classes and mixing with their neighbors, gave themselves up when they were surrounded by heavily armed police. A fifth committed suicide rather than surrender. The gang members, who escaped from prison where they were serving long sentences for rape, murder and other serious crimes, will most...
Rick Kaplan, former president of CNN-US, will be the visiting Lombard lecturer. He is teaching a module--a six-week half credit course--called "Do American Media Meet the Needs of a Modern Democracy?" that will be open to college students...
...quickly assigned children to the agency, a result of blatant favoritism. Thus Grace Home was off and running, supported by county revenues. An audit alleged, however, that the agency's director had misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars on trips to Washington and Atlanta, as well as a six-week stay in Africa. The director even charged the government for his subscription to Travel & Leisure magazine. The 1995 audit found numerous safety violations in the agency's homes: untrained child watchers, unchecked criminal backgrounds, unsecured knives, broken glass, inoperable smoke detectors and toxic substances within reach of children...